10 Years Ago, Neill Blomkamp’s Underrated Sci-Fi Flop Was Ahead Of Its Time
We live in the world that sci-fi pioneers like Isaac Asimov warned us about. Inequality heightens while political authoritarianism is...
55 Years Ago, A Wildly Influential Disaster Thriller Invented A New Genre — And Changed Hollywood Forever
Although the origins of the disaster movie, like many other film genres, trace back to the earliest days of cinema...
30 Years Ago, An Underrated Sci-Fi Episode Defied TV’s Most Persistent Trope
The fact that Babylon 5 was a heavily serialized sci-fi series was groundbreaking in the 1990s, but, what often gets...
30 Years Ago, A Forgotten Stephen King Flop Brought Together 4 Horror Legends
If you were to statistically break down the Stephen King stories that have been optioned for screen adaptation — the...
35 Years Later, A Forgotten Spy Thriller Is Impossible To Find
This year, the Mission: Impossible film series will, presumably, wrap things up with the ominously titled Mission: Impossible — The...
35 Years Ago, One Classic Star Trek Episode Changed Time-Travel Forever
While many science fiction franchises can stake a claim for the best time-travel stories of all time, it’s hard to...
20 Years Ago, An Epic Fantasy Series Changed TV Forever
In the 20 years since its release, Avatar: The Last Airbender can be counted among the most successful new fantasy...
15 Years Ago, Martin Scorsese’s Most Underrated Thriller Delivered A Shocking Twist That Still Holds Up
A thick blanket of fog covers the first frames of Shutter Island, an easy metaphor for the case US Marshal...
35 Years Ago, An Obscure Marvel Movie Accidentally Had A Brilliant Ending
In a world where superheroes are continually revived, reanimated, or recast, no matter how often they’ve previously been sent to...
20 Years Later, DC’s Most Divisive Noir Thriller Is Getting A Huge Upgrade
All too often, bad comic book adaptations suffer from depressingly similar problems. Surrounded by an unmistakable aura of studio executive...